Prime Minister Narendra Modi will interact with 172 newly-inducted IAS officers Thursday in New Delhi. As per a press release issued, the Prime Minister will address valedictory session of the Assistant Secretaries (IAS-2014 batch).

This is the second batch of IAS Officers to have commenced their career with a stint in the Central Government.

The officers earlier in August this year started working as Assistant Secretaries in 58 Central government departments, instead of starting their career from the cadre states assigned to them, after their training. All the officials were assigned important desks related to policy and flagship programmes of the concerned ministries and departments during their three-month posting.